Captain Richards has his crew wipe down their fishing boat. One of his charter passengers, Elliot Wallace, talks about an inside tip on an equity fund with his friends. Vickie comes up with the beers. Suddenly, Elliot convulses and his body folds into a ball, breaking several of his bones as he screams in agony.

Jess comes to the station and reports a prowler, but it turns out she was joking and just came to see Nathan. With Audrey's prompting, he nervously agrees to come to her house for another date. They get a call about Elliot, so they go to the docks. Eleanor examines the man and says that his bone breaks are completely straight, and that he's also covered with an unidentified black substance. Elliot is taken to the hospital. Captain Richards and his crew, which includes Vickie, her fiance Jimmy, and her father Alec, say that they don't know what happened to him. Jimmy complains about rich snobs like Elliot using their boat and bossing them around. Captain Richards reminds him that the deckhands' duty is to serve faithfully.

Nathan, Audrey, and Eleanor have lunch at The Grey Gull while discussing the case. They notice a tarp covering a table, and after some prodding, Duke explains that his restaurant is doing a surprise birthday party for someone. The officers get a call about a new case.

They go to a real estate office where Joe Santomauro has been sliced to pieces, vertically. The only witness was Alec, who claims that Joe just fell to pieces right in front of him. They find more of the black substance around the remains. Joe's agent Carol says that Joe had many enemies. They wonder if Alec was responsible. Alec says that he had been arguing with Joe. Audrey decides to test her theory and provokes him, but nothing happens. After he leaves, Nathan points out that if she had been right, he would have sliced them to pieces. The black substance is identified as sketching charcoal.

They go to the art store, where they find that Jimmy recently bought a large amount of the charcoal. They realize that if Jimmy is doing this, then they should use the element of surprise. They ask Duke to help, but he refuses, saying that Jimmy's family are among his best customers.

They ask Jess to help. Eager to help Nathan, she agrees to watch from a distance and snipe Jimmy with a tranquilizer dart if he gives any sign of doing something dangerous. They walk up to Jimmy and question him. Suddenly, Jimmy's mouth vanishes, then his eyes, leaving his face blank except for his nose. He gives a silent scream and thrashes around panicking.

They take Jimmy to Eleanor's house, where she sedates him. She agrees to look after him until the officers can figure out how to stop this Trouble. Jess wants to continue helping, but Nathan says it's too dangerous and tells her to go home. She protests, and Nathan snaps at her. Audrey says she's found out that Jimmy bought the charcoal for Vickie, an art teacher.

They visit her class, but she refuses to talk to them and tells them to leave her alone. From her comments, they realize that she doesn't know what happened to Jimmy. They search her home and find a separate wing that she uses as an art studio. A vase shatters for no apparent reason. They realize that a large number of sketches have been stolen. Audrey finds a sketch of Nathan. When she taps it, Nathan gets knocked across the room.

Audrey says they should arrest Vickie, but Nathan points out that they can't really charge her with anything. Nathan figures that the vase shattered because he stepped on its sketch. Nathan points out that Vickie would have no reason to "erase" Jimmy, so the person who stole Vickie's sketches must be the one doing this. They call in another officer to guard Nathan's sketch rather than risk moving it.

They visit Elliot at the hospital, who says that he owed Captain Richards $300,000 on a bet that he couldn't cover, and that Joe had a real estate deal with the Captain. The officers figure that Captain Richards is using Vickie's sketches to eliminate people who anger him.

They find Vickie and explain that they know what she can do. She says that Richards is holding her father Alec hostage. After he learned about her Trouble, he took a lot of her sketches. Elliot's was crumpled into a ball and Joe's was put in a shredder. When they ask why she didn't use her power against him, she explains that it only works with the ''first'' sketch that she made of a subject, and Richards has his sketch.

Later, Duke visits Richards on his boat at the docks, offering wine. They make a toast about a business deal. Audrey, Nathan, and Vickie show up and Duke goes below deck. The officers say they're on to him and order him to turn over the drawings. He reveals his trump card, a highly detailed sketch of ''the entire town''. He orders them to surrender, and for kicks taps a building, causing the real building to shatter. He's suddenly knocked down, as Duke emerges, carrying the sketch of Richards. Duke also found Alec tied up below deck and released him. The officers quickly catch the town sketch. Enraged, Richards tackles Duke, causing his sketch to fall into the water. He starts sputtering and coughing up water. Nathan and Duke try to retrieve the sketch, but it sinks. Richards drowns.

Audrey gives all of Vickie's sketches to Eleanor and tells her to hide them in a safe place. Vickie redrew Jimmy's face.

Nathan goes on another date with Jess.

Audrey has a drink with Duke and thanks him for his help.
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* AmbiguousSyntax: Invoked. Nathan and Audrey head to the Gull to talk with Duke, and Duke greets them as "Haven's Finest." He then notes he could add "Ass" to the end of it and it would still work to refer to either of them, just in different ways.
* AndIMustScream: Jimmy ends up with his mouth and eyes erased.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Nathan snaps at Jess to go home and they fight, because he is concerned her involvement in the case will put her at risk.
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Discussed, when Jess tells Nathan they're having venison from a deer she shot on her land. Audrey questions this, as Jess has [[ContinuityNod made her views on hunting clear]] and Jess [[DeadpanSnarker says]] that she is all about animal welfare, and that usually she'd use a tranquilizer gun, but that it "makes them taste funny."
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Audrey and Nathan stumble upon Vickie's studio, and as Nathan walks across the room, a vase on a stool spontaneously combusts. Audrey nervously suggests that it was the wind, and Nathan tentatively agrees, even though, as he notes, they're inside. It isn't until Audrey taps a drawing of Nathan and it sends him flying that they realize it's the drawings; Nathan had stepped on a drawing of the vase.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Elliot tells Audrey and Nathan that he owes Captain Richards $300,000 due to a lost bet he placed on the Jets and that Captain Richards is murdering people using Vickie's drawings. Audrey's first response is disgust that he bet on the Jets.
* BlackComedy: After Jimmy gets his eyes, ears, and mouth erased, Audrey brings him to Eleanor's house, rather than the hospital. Eleanor sedates Jimmy and tells Audrey that "in some ways, he's the perfect house guest."
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Vickie is being used as muscle for Richards, who is blackmailing her with her father's debt to him.
* BlatantLies:
** Jess makes up a ridiculous story about a prowler at her property in an effort to get Nathan alone.
** Nathan describes Elliott Wallace's injuries to Duke, and he inquires "boom?"[[note]]As in, the horizontal bottom pole of a sail[[/note]] Audrey tells him she doesn't know what sound the attack made, and hastily insists she was "just kidding" when there's a beat of silence from both of them.
** Nathan is hesitant to leave behind the picture of him Vickie drew, but he also doesn't want to touch it for fear moving it will affect him. He calls another officer to come watch it, and when Audrey asks Nathan if he's going to tell the officer why, Nathan says he's going to tell him "because it's really good."
* BodyHorror: Elliot Wallace is violently folded several times. And not at the joints. All of which is shown onscreen.
* BuffySpeak:
** Audrey being Jess and Nathan's wingwoman.
-->'''Nathan:''' So you saw the prowler?
-->'''Jess:''' A glimpse. Barely. He was 6'7". One eyebrow. Fu Manchu. Carried a small slingshot. Had a tattoo.
-->'''Nathan:''' Of what?
-->'''Audrey:''' Does it matter? He was a 6'7", unibrow, sling-shotty ''monster.''
** Nathan and Audrey discuss the case and Audrey immediately jumps to supernatural causes. She cites the fact Eleanor winked at her as they carted the body away as evidence she's on the right track. Nathan incredulously asks for confirmation, and Audrey says there was "winkage."
* ChekhovsGag: Jess quips that she usually uses a tranquilizer gun on game, but not on the ones she eats because it makes them taste funny. Later, she is pressed into service as a FriendlySniper when Audrey and Nathan confront Jimmy. She brings her tranquilizer gun, with a tranq that "drops a grizzly bear in 10 seconds."
* ConsummateLiar: The group of guys Elliot Wallace was sailing with tell Nathan they didn't see anything out of the ordinary before he was violently folded. When Audrey asks if he believes then, Nathan says he "kept [his] hand on [his] wallet the whole time."
* EmbarrassingHobby: Nathan does decoupage and does ''not'' want Audrey to find out. The cashier at the arts and crafts store gives him away.
-->'''Audrey:''' Where do you decoupage, Wuornos?
-->'''Nathan:''' Someplace private.
* FeigningIntelligence: Audrey goes to question the boat captain, and asks if he saw anything wrong with any of the ship components. She begins to list them off, but when she starts to mention ship parts a small boat wouldn't have, it meets a NoSell with the captain and she sheepishly admits she's from Ohio.
* FriendlySniper: Audrey asks Jess to play the part (with a tranquilizer gun) while they interrogate Jimmy. She is happy to help and Nathan seems a little taken aback by how comfortable she feels dropping Jimmy to the ground if needed.
* GamblersFallacy: Elliot is a chronic gambler, sure each time this next big thing is a sure thing.
* GibberishOfLove: Nathan is so flustered by having a date with Jess planned for him that he needs to be prompted to answer the phone, and when he does, answers it with "Nathan Police Department."
* HollywoodDrowning: Subverted. When Captain Richards drowns, he is almost completely silent except to cough up water.
* InherentlyFunnyWords: Audrey teases Nathan for being into decoupage, but admits she doesn't actually know what that is.
* ObliviousToLove: Nathan is given several opportunities to pick up on the fact Jess is trying to ask him out and misses every single one of them. Audrey teases him for the rest of the episode about his lack of game.
* PerpSweating: Audrey baits Alec during his interrogation in the hopes that he's the one who's Troubled. He's not and Nathan is upset at Audrey's recklessness, considering what the Trouble is.
* PetTheDog: Duke is hiding something at the Gull behind a tarp, seemingly nefarious...it's birthday party supplies. For the 80-year-old Haven librarian, whose family is throwing her a surprise party. Aw. To make sure he doesn't [[CharacterCheck lose his reputation,]] he tells Audrey he smuggled it all.
* RealityChangingMiniature: Vickie's sketches are basically 2-D voodoo dolls.
* [[RomanticWingman Romantic Wingwoman]]: Audrey takes pity on Nathan and sets up the date with Jess for him.
* SourOutsideSadInside: When Nathan bristles at Audrey's teasing about Jess, she pegs him as "numb on the outside, sensitive on the inside."
* TakeThat: Audrey is flabbergasted that Elliot bet on the Jets.
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: Audrey threatens to haul Vickie down to the station if she won't answer their questions. She doesn't take the bait and after she leaves, Nathan mocks Audrey's [[ThisIsReality use of stereotypical threats]].